The annual award ceremony featured costumes, songs and paper airplanes as scientists recognized comedic research across ten ...

The Ig Nobels were founded by a science humor magazine in 1991 to honor the imaginative and unusual in science ...

This year's Ig Nobel ceremony was held at MIT on Thursday evening, with the awards presented by actual Nobel Prize laureates.

The 34th Ig Nobel prizes, themed around Murphy's Law, were announced Thursday and featured the typical array of atypical, ...

This year’s winners included a study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles, an experiment that saw ...

The Ig Nobel gongs celebrate unusual areas of research that "make people laugh, then think" - such as mammals that can ...

A study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles and one that looks at the swimming abilities of dead ...

Biology Prize: Fordyce Ely and William E Petersen, for exploding a paper bag next to a cat that's standing on the back of a ...

From stuffing pigeons into missiles to discovering that animals can breathe through their anuses, the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize ...

PARIS: Mammals that can breathe through their backsides, homing pigeons that can guide missiles and sober worms that outpace ...

A Second World War project which involved training pigeons to pilot bombs has won this year’s spoof Nobel peace prize. The Ig ...